Afflict vs Subdue - What's the difference?
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To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
* 1611 , 1:11–12:
* 1611 , 23:27:
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
* Milton
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
* Jeremy Taylor
To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
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To bring (a country) under control by force.
Afflict is a related term of subdue.
As verbs the difference between afflict and subdue
is that afflict is to cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress while subdue is to overcome, quieten, or bring under control.afflict
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Verb
(en verb)- Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict' them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they ' afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- reassembling our afflicted powers
- (Spenser)
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
subdue
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(subdu)citation, page= , passage=Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued .}}